At the Feminism Without Borders Website Launch on April 4, 2019, we ended the event by asking participants the following questions, asking them to use ONE WORD / ONE PHRASE / ONE DRAWING / IN ANY LANGUAGE, answer the following questions on the given cue cards. Below are some of the common and most notable answers.
1. Once this event is over, how do we connect transnational feminist activism to the community?
-doubt your set ideas
-ensuring migrant voices are heard
-have difficult conversations / talking about it / discuss
-accountable visibility
-power through solidarity
-unlearning / education (about borders)
-active listening / mindful listening
-deconstruct hierarchies
2. After learning from the various experts at this event, what do you think the most important aspect of transnational feminist activism is?
-listening to others
-decolonizing discourse, divesting from exploitative practices
-decolonial narratives are critical / trans indig fem analysis
-spirit, bodies voices thoughts in a room stories sharing together
-nonviolent communicative space for others to share their stories to make difficult issues to talk about / freedom from violence and fear
-destabilize binaries, destabilize hegemony
-normalizing concepts of naturalness related to borders
-equality
-space
-community
-getting rid of nation borders
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